Dr. Samuel Adams

For the "Founding Father", see Samuel Adams.

Dr. Samuel Adams (1730-1810) was a physician, surgeon, and farmer who was an Arlington, Vermont loyalist soldier in the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Adams was from Stratford, Connecticut, but in 1764 he moved to the New Hampshire Grants town of Arlington. In 1774 he was tarred, feathered, and hung from a sign post as public humiliation for arguing with Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys. A year later, with the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, he sided with the Tories (loyalists to Great Britain) along with his son Gideon Adams and commanded the Loyalists at the Battle of Greenville, Rhode Island in late June 1776. In autumn 1776 he fought at the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain commanded Adams' Rangers in the Burgoyne Expedition. After the war he headed to Toronto in British Canada and died there.